Black Quote by George Wallace

When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people by calling…

— George Wallace

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous…

— Strom Thurmond

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were…

— Leah Ward Sears

All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in…

— Bobby Seale

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and…

— Jaime Harrison

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

— Neal Brennan

Whether it's on the court or off, there's a sense of understanding that you get from - and I'm not going to say all,…

— Jerami Grant

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.…

— Michelle Alexander

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

— Abraham Lincoln

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white…

— Nelson Mandela

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional…

— Ed Koch

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and…

— Abraham Lincoln